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Iraqi
archaeologists recently announced that they
have discovered a castle that dates to the
late Parthian and early Sasanian of Iranian
periods. The Iranian Parthians and the
Sasanians dynasties were the hires of
Achaemenid empire who controlled all parts of
Mesopotamia from the seventh century B.C. to
the seventh century A.D. The Arab
Muslims defeated the Sasanians-Iran and
conquered all the Iranian land including
Khvarvaran province (today known as Iraq) in
ca. 650 A.D. and most of the peoples of Iran
converted to the Muslim religion and.
The
castle was found in Babil province in southern
today Iraq, about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
Many items from the late Persian period were
found at the site including jars, statues, and
coins. It is very likely that the castle was
designed to protect the region against the
incursions of the Romans who controlled the
west bank of the Euphrates River and who
frequently attacked the Iranians.
Many
historians today believe that the
centuries-long, very-destructive wars between
the Iranians and the Eastern Roman so weakened
both empires that the Arab Muslims had a
relatively easy time in conquering the entire
Middle East.
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